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More Digital; a UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy

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  1. SEO101

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    I just got an email from a guy at More Digital, which claims to be a "UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy."

    Here's the email (I substituted my domain name for privacy purposes):

    Hi,

    I work for More Digital; a UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy.

    We represent clients interested in social media marketing on smaller sites with little or no existing advertising and we're currently looking for advertising partners.

    Would you be interested in placing a small text-based ad on example.com?

    We pay a fixed upfront annual fee which we will agree on with you. Once the ad is in place, payment is made within approximately 48 hours.

    I hope to hear from you soon.

    Kind regards,
    Andrew Webster

    I checked out MoreDigital.com and it appears to be a legitimate website. I'm trying to decide if I should reply and at least see what the offer is (ie. rates for the text-links) or simply ignore this. It is an unsolicited email (mailed to my domain's whois email address), so I'm of course a little suspicious and wary. Any thoughts?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. Anonymous



    Looks like this may go against Google's TOS (Terms of Service) of allowing paid links. I think as long as the links are no-followed, the strategy may be legit, but if they're used to garner/ exchange "link credit" (ie. PageRank juice), then it's most certainly a violation of Google's TOS.

    I think I've actually heard of people getting banned for this (selling text links). I would stay clear - it's probably not worth if for a couple hundred bucks or whatever they offer you...

    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. Anonymous



    Hey,

    I just received the same message and had similar thoughts - checked their HP and looking for reviews. I also feel unsure about it. Has anybody new/more experience with them?

    Thx

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. Anonymous



    I got the same email today 8to an German email account).
    There are no details. So I feel it is not really serious.
    Fred

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. Anonymous



    I also wonder what is this about.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  6. Anonymous



    Also got this a few days ago. May break google tos and affect page rank. 120 usd for a link to o2.co.uk

    Posted 1 year ago #

  7. Anonymous



    Hi
    this is the message I got today?

    I work for More Digital; a UK based Digital Marketing Consultancy.

    We represent clients interested in social media marketing on smaller sites with little or no existing advertising and we're currently looking for advertising partners.

    We pay a fixed upfront annual fee which we will agree on with you. Once the ad is in place, payment is made within approximately 48 hours.

    Would you be interested in placing a small text-based ad on [my homepage?

    Kind regards,
    Ruth Sims

    Has anybody new and or more experience with them?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  8. Anonymous



    Hi,
    I've just received the same email (to an italian email account) and I don't know what to do.
    Any suggestion?

    best,

    Vittoria

    Posted 1 year ago #

  9. Anonymous



    I got the same email you all are talking about. I agreed to put the link up last week. Since then they have sent me 2 emails saying this...

    How are you?

    I apologise for the delay in payment. We are normally able to transfer funds to you via PayPal within 24-48 hours. We have grown rather quickly, are making more payments to webmasters like you, and PayPal now requires us to complete more security measures. Unfortunately we didn't have any warning this would occur. In the long term, this will mean more secure payments and enable better transfers, however right now it means a short delay. We are hoping this will be resolved within 72 hours and are doing everything in our power to work with PayPal to fulfil their requirements.

    Thank you for your patience, I understand this is unexpected. We will keep you updated on when you can expect your payment through.

    Hopefully they come through and pay, and my opinion on against google TOS for accepting a paid link is complete ****. It is google's responsibility to ensure quality search results (not ours). If they cannot do so properly without their dumb broken "pagerank" then they need to move over as #1 search engine and let someone do it that can do it properly without telling everyone in the world that they aren't allowed to profit off of their own website.

    Google doesn't own the internet and anyone afraid of accepting a paid link needs to grow some balls and tell google to screw off.

    Now whether these people actually pay up is a different issue, I'll let you all know if they ever stop having paypal problems and pay me.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  10. Anonymous



    Hello!
    Can I ask the More Digital payed?
    I got a same e-mail... and I don't konw it is real or not...
    Best wishes,
    Aaron

    Posted 1 year ago #

  11. Anonymous



    Good Lordy people. What is the problem? If you don't like the deal you take the ad down. You have ultimate control.

    Um .... many many sites sell advertising space on their sites. Kind of like commercials on television. Where is the fear and confusion coming from?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  12. Anonymous



    I'm the one from 3 posts up. They DID pay me, we ended up using google checkout since they had paypal issues. this is a legitimate offer, stick it to google and make $100.00

    Posted 1 year ago #

  13. Anonymous



    I received a similar letter to Russia.
    What money to pay for this work?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  14. Anonymous



    I got this same email. Does anyone have a website address for this company?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  15. Anonymous



    I also received this letter and I thin they are criminal. Thay sent same email to different companies, the people post their info for 48 hours and more. So this Media Digital receive 48 hours free advertising from each of you. Then think how many of us received this mail? Not bad, huh?

    Posted 1 year ago #

  16. Anonymous



    I know I enjoyed spending my $100.00 - Legit company that's serious about seo

    Posted 1 year ago #

  17. Anonymous



    @Anonymous "Free 48 hours advertising".

    They paid me within the 48 hours. Regardless, the advert stays for 1 year from when I put it on my site, not from when they pay me. So they didn't get anything for free.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  18. Anonymous



    <a href="http://forum.guruofsearch.com/topic/more-digital-a-uk-based-digital-marketing-consultancy#post-53">Anon</a> asked "Does anyone have a website address for this company?"

    Yep, it's easy to find: http://www.moredigital.com/.

    They appear to be legit, but if by "Deliver you (advertisers) straight to your target audience", it means having loads of ads with little connection to my posts, then I'm not interested.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  19. Anonymous



    Interesting and helpful posts. I too received the mail from More Digital (we are in Norway) and am now mulling whether or not to say yes. They're only offering me USD 80. Think I'll refer to the USD 100 pay outs. Thanks!

    Posted 1 year ago #

  20. Anonymous



    I got the same e-mail and after reading this I don't think I'm going to e-mail them back. It's kinda weird.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  21. Anonymous



    Please, reply to there first e-mail. Just let them have some work. Even if you don't trust it. This way, if there criminals, they will quit because of the non-payed work.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  22. Anonymous



    this is weird, they paid me $120 in my paypal after 2-3 weeks of changes to my blog.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  23. Anonymous



    I got an email from moredigital offering $120 for a link on an inside page of my site, they say that homepage links are too expensive so prefer inside ones (my homepage has a ranking of 5). I told them I would write out the ad and place link myself rather than copy and paste their ad, as I have done with a car rental website i have on my site. Now they are asking if I am the owner of the car rental company (in fact the rental co. are friends of mine and we have exchanged links for years now). the emails are signed Jack Renwick. I find this a bit strange and wonder if it is worth such a small amount.

    Posted 10 months ago #

  24. Anonymous



    They sent me an email too, but when I accepted their offer, I didn't get any response back. No one even bothered to email me whether they're not interested or what not. Disappointing really.

    Posted 9 months ago #

  25. Anonymous



    I too got the same e-mail and the company gets advertising for almost nothing (80-120 $) so I prefer not to answer them at all. Not that I wouldn't have use of the money, I just don't like to be taking advantage of.

    Rune

    Posted 8 months ago #

  26. Anonymous



    $80-120 for 1 year of advertising? That is a scam, why would you people accept this?

    Posted 8 months ago #

  27. Anonymous



    I was contacted by them too, was dubious at first but went with it. Placed a text link of one of my pages, was paid $100 within 24 hours, no problem.
    $100 for less than 15 mins work is pretty good in my book

    Posted 8 months ago #

  28. Anonymous



    Can anyone say what the ad text is that appears on your website if you sign up to this?

    Posted 7 months ago #

  29. Anonymous



    looks a good deal , any reports on pay out and such ?
    www.youtubehits.info

    Posted 7 months ago #

  30. Anonymous



    I was also contacted by them, and i'm still considering the offer. It's been established here that they pay, so that's no problem, but to those that have been payed and are hosting their links, have you checked and seen any changes for your sites with google rank. I wish I could not care about it, but I do, I've been working hard to get my site popular, so I can't risk our rank.
    The link they sent me goes to a poker online page, which looks legitimate, it' not banned on google, by my site has nothing to do with games online. I directly asked if they were going to suck google rank from us, they said no. Because they also chose to place the link on a very old post of ours, which is strange, because i think nobody is checking that post. So, why do they want to set the link on a page that's not visited. So I'd like to understand better what to do. Its true that 120 usd is not to become millionaire, but I want to make money with my site, so I don't want to reject money without strong reasons.

    Posted 6 months ago #

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